Too-Close-to-Home Parody of Apple Product Lifecycle

Lifecycle

I just stumbled across Mister BG’s all-too-real parody of Apple’s Product Lifecycle. This is my favorite paragraph:

The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like, “Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?” become matters of life and death.

It’s funny because it’s true. Well done, sir.

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Petemortensen

Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com Shawn King

    “I just stumbled across…” Pete – are you new to the Web? This story was funny – the first time we all reported on it back in July of 2004. :)

    Shawn King
    Host/Executive Producer
    Your Mac Life
    http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com

  • joie

    “The bedwetting in Mac Internet forums reaches tidal proportions…”

  • PAAVOPETIE

    BOOM!

  • sdude

    wait, it doesn’t play ogg vorbis? OMG!

  • DrRick

    Someone in Cupertino once told me “No one has seen everything on the WWW”. Pete, I REALLY enjoyed that. Thanks!
    Peace,
    DrRick